Extremism

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 5 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Richard Mille — the luxury watch brand targeted in an armed robbery outside Beverly Hills hotspot Il Pastaio — is a favorite of celebrities like tennis ace Rafael Nadal, Brazilian soccer star Neymar, martial arts wonder Jackie Chan and actress Natalie Portman. Friends of the victim said the particular model that was ripped off in the Thursday heist that left one woman shot was a Richard Mille RM 11-03 rose gold Flyback Chronograph — which costs a jaw-dropping $500,000, according to KNBC . BEVERLY HILLS SHOOTING: ROBBERS TAKE OFF WITH $500G WATCH, REPORT SAYS The watch features a "skeletonized, automatic winding movement with a variable-geometry rotor," according to the company’s website. "Under the bonnet of the RM 11-03 beats a flyback chronograph ready to literally race on the track," it says. … [Read more...] about A look at the $500,000 Richard Mille watch stolen in Beverly Hills shooting

AMMAN, JORDAN - Pope Francis has addressed an interfaith gathering of Iraq's religious and ethnic groups in Ur, said to be the birthplace of Abraham, the common patriarch for Jews, Christians and Muslims. He drove home the need for respect and unity, and he used the opportunity to condemn violent religious extremism. The pontiff said that all of Iraq’s communities have suffered too long from terrorism and war. “Hostility, extremism and violence are not born of a religious heart: They are betrayals of religion,” he said. His remarks in Italian were translated into English. “We are believers and as believers mustn’t stand silent when we see terrorism, when terrorism takes hold of religion for its own gain. It is up to us as religious men and women to destroy evil. We cannot have the light of God be darkened as it has been in this country, where war, violence and terrorism has brought darkness,” the pontiff said. Pope Francis also drew attention to the genocide perpetrated by … [Read more...] about In Biblical City of Ur, Pope Urges Inter-Religious Tolerance, Fraternity

A political cartoon showing Representative Preston Brooks beating abolitionist senator Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber in 1856. Photo: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive Going into the 2020 elections, Democrats had high hopes that Joe Biden would win the presidential contest by enough of a margin to ensure solid Democratic majorities in Congress. That was a pretty big deal: After all, in a period of interconnected public-health and economic crises, having one of our two highly polarized parties in a position to get legislation through Congress provided a much better prospect for effective governance than the bipartisanship everyone supports in principle but no one (least of all today’s Republicans) actually practices. As it happens, Democrats did manage to pull off a trifecta (just as Republicans did in 2016), but by the narrowest possible margins. That outcome, alongside the existence of the Senate filibuster, has forced President Biden to pursue the cramped and complicated … [Read more...] about Today’s Gridlock Is Like a 19th-Century Nightmare

ROME — Pope Francis addressed an interreligious gathering on the Plain of Ur in Iraq Saturday, calling for unity among all who believe in the God of Abraham. “Today we, Jews, Christians and Muslims, together with our brothers and sisters of other religions, honor our father Abraham by doing as he did: we look up to heaven and we journey on earth,” the pope told the audience. In his address, the pope made the case that human fraternity is only possible when God is recognized as the Creator of all and the Father of all. When God is ignored, he suggested, human beings lose their value as well. If we want to preserve fraternity, “we must not lose sight of heaven,” he said. “May we – the descendants of Abraham and the representatives of different religions – sense that, above all, we have this role: to help our brothers and sisters to raise their eyes and prayers to heaven.” “We all need this because we are not self-sufficient,” Francis continued. “Man is not omnipotent; we … [Read more...] about Pope Francis to Iraqis: Hate Is the ‘Greatest Blasphemy’

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), a human rights and advocacy organization for the ethnic group, has asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s ethics commission chair to review its call for the 2022 Winter Games not to be held in Beijing, China, citing allegations of “crimes against humanity” by China against Uyghurs. Human rights organizations and the U.N. estimate that 1-3 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in China’s western region of Xinjiang have been detained in state-run camps since at least 2017 as part of a targeted crackdown on the ethnic minority groups by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) wrote IOC ethics chief and former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on February 26, stating that the IOC had “acted in breach of the Olympic Charter by failing to reconsider holding the 2022 Olympics in Beijing following verifiable evidence of genocide and crimes and humanity taking place” in Xinjiang’s Uyghur detention … [Read more...] about Uyghurs Take Beijing Games Boycott to Olympics Ethics Chief